On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 11:48:34PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > Ruby 1.9.3 is going to be released in september, and is a candidate for > the default ruby version in wheezy. A snapshot is available in > experimental. Now is an ideal time to work on porting issues and get the > fixes integrated upstream. Ruby has a fairly large test suite, which > makes finding problems easy, but exercises the threading library in > interesting ways. > > Most of the issues are reproducible by re-building the Debian package. > Use make && make test to get a shorter build. > > Here is the current complete list of issues I'm aware of. My time will > be very limited in the coming weeks, but I will try my best to provide > help. > > [armel,sparc] FTBFS due to miscompilation with -ftree-sra (inc. in -O3). > See http://bugs.debian.org/635126. > Currently worked-around by using -fno-tree-sra. > Other packages might be affected. > -> FIXED from ruby1.9.1's POV, but you really want to look at this > for other packages. > > [armel] I've just seen that now that this one is fixed, the test suite > segfaults. > See > https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=ruby1.9.1&arch=armel&ver=1.9.3~preview1%2Bsvn33077-1&stamp=1314634969 > search for 'TestFiber#test_many_fibers'. > 'make test-all' to reproduce. Failures during test-all are currently not > fatal. The remaining ones needs more investigation, but I don't think > that they are arch-specific. I'd like to make test-all failures fatal at > some point.
Building on armhf seemed to go fine, and running some of the examples looked good too. -- Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bsd-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110830140829.gl15...@caffeine.csclub.uwaterloo.ca
